Paradox: Screen Time Control
Focus, App Blocker & Reads
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Set your own limits, run focus sessions, watch your guardian grow. Blocking is free and stays free. No ads.
You meant to read a book tonight. You opened your phone to check one thing. That was ninety minutes ago.
Paradox puts a guardian between you and the apps that take the most, and gives the time you win back to something worth reading.
GUARD THE APPS THAT PULL YOU IN
Pick the apps, whole categories and websites you would rather not open, and the hours they are off limits. The wall goes up and comes down on schedule, even while Paradox is closed. Two rules come ready to use on weekdays, a block from 9 to 5 and a 45-minute daily limit, and both are yours to rewrite.
A PAUSE BEFORE YOU GIVE IN
Open a guarded app and the Paradox shield is there first. If you really do need in, you ask from inside Paradox: your guardian stands in the way, you wait out a short countdown, and you choose 2, 5 or 15 minutes. The pass closes itself when the time is up.
FOCUS SESSIONS
The Focus tab starts a session: an hour of deep work, half an hour, a quick fifteen minutes, or a length of your own. Your guardian rests by a campfire under the night sky, and the apps you chose stay blocked until the session ends, even while it is paused. Follow the clock on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, start a session from the Focus widget on your Home Screen, and look back on your week, month and year in the report.
SOMETHING WORTH YOUR ATTENTION
Grow is a library of short lessons to read or listen to, meant to leave you a little better than they found you. On the pause screen, one tap trades the pass for a read.
YOUR NUMBERS, HONESTLY
Where today, this week and this month actually went, app by app. Put a daily limit on your apps and watch today fill up.
GUARDIANS YOU EARN
Every day you keep a block on earns experience, and so does every focus session. Fill the bar to reach a new level, and each level lets you pick a new guardian or a new attack on the guardian tree. The first time you open Paradox each day, your guardian tells you what you earned. Choose the background your guardian stands in. Some of them move, with music of their own.
PARADOX PREMIUM
Blocking, schedules, focus sessions, statistics and the whole library need no subscription, and there are no ads. Paradox Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, that opens the premium guardians and their attacks, and the premium backgrounds. Subscribing needs an account, because the subscription belongs to your account rather than to one phone. Each plan shows its period and how it renews before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings.
YOUR PRIVACY
No ads, and nothing about you is sold to anyone. The per-app times in Stats are drawn by iOS inside a sandboxed extension that cannot hand them to us. We also measure how Paradox itself gets used, and the privacy policy says exactly what that means.
NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Blocking, focus sessions, statistics, the library, your level and your guardians all work without signing in. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your progress on any phone, or to subscribe.
Paradox needs Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) permission, because it is the only way iOS lets one app hold another back. You grant it on your device, and you can withdraw it in Settings at any time.
Paradox is made by two brothers. Write to us and one of us will answer.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.tryparadox.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://www.tryparadox.app/privacy
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- A new first run: your guardian shows you how many times you picked up your phone yesterday, your week and the apps that take the most of your time, then helps you choose which ones to guard
- Guard them from day one with a schedule, a daily limit or both
- New guardians and attacks reach your phone in the background, without opening Guardians
- Fixes and improvements
The developer, Diego Sepulveda, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Diego Sepulveda
- Size
- 102.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Paradox Premium Monthly $9.99
- Paradox Premium Yearly $79.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paradox App